Vol. 29, no. 2 (Autumn 1985)
| Editor-in-Chief | John Fricke |
| Production Editor | Dan Smith, Lynne Smith |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Douglas G. Greene |
| Contributing Editors | Martin Gardner, Michael Gessel, Michael Patrick Hearn, Dick Martin, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund, Ethan Mordden, Douglas Rossman |
Front cover art by Andy Warhol (Margaret Hamilton portrait)
Back cover art by unknown artist (Castell Bros.’ The Wizard of Oz Card Game)
Autumn 1985 Selected Contents
This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.
The Favorite
“Call Me Maggie”
John Fricke and Michael Patrick Hearn pen separate memorials for their late friend, Margaret Hamilton.
“My Father was ‘The Wizard of Oz'”: Memories and Anecdotes of a Famous Father (Part 1)
The first half of an unpublished article by Harry Neal Baum, L. Frank Baum’s third son, based on a lecture he gave twice in 1961. In it, he describes various adventures of his father up to the publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900. This article would be concluded in the Winter 1985 issue.
A New Illustrator—and Late Visitor—in Oz
John Fricke interviews Michael Herring, the artist tasked with providing new cover art for Del Rey’s paperback reprints of the Baum and Thompson Oz books.
Oz Under Scrutiny: The Scarecrow of Oz, Rinkitink in Oz, The Lost Princess of Oz, The Tin Woodman of Oz, The Magic of Oz, and Glinda of Oz
The editors look at reviews of L. Frank Baum’s ninth through fourteenth Oz books contemporary with their original publication. These brief selections would be greatly expanded in centenary issues between 2015 and 2020. Includes vintage advertising.
Her Experiences in Attempting to Photograph a Baby, and the Severe Mental Strain that Ensued
A reprint of one installment of L. Frank Baum’s Our Landlady newspaper column from April 28, 1890.
Bibliographia Baumiana: Our Landlady
Douglas G. Greene provides bibliographical data about the 1941 published collection of Baum’s 1890/91 newspaper column.
Reviews
Return to Oz directed by Walter Murch (feature film; reviewer John Fricke)
The Wizard of Way-Up and Other Wonders by Ruth Plumly Thompson (fiction; reviewer Hugh Poindexter III)
Cut & Assemble The Wizard of Oz Toy Theater: Full-Color Characters and Scenery by Dick Martin (craft book; reviewer Neal Wilgus)
The Royal Book of Oz / Kabumpo in Oz / The Cowardly Lion of Oz / Grampa in Oz / The Lost King of Oz / The Hungry Tiger of Oz Del Rey editions (fiction; reviewer John Fricke)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus Crown Publishers edition (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz introduction by Kurt S. Adler (fiction; reviewer Douglas G. Greene)
The Whimsical World of Oz (TV special; reviewer John Fricke)